Putting avi and mpeg movies into a single VCD

[Robin Laing]

A. Lanza wrote:
> I have an avi movie about 735 MB. in size and i'd like to convert it to
> vcd format and burn it into a single CD.
> 
> I've known that i can use tools like transcode, mplex and vcdimage... I
> started transcoding the movie to SVCD format with transcode, and got two
> files that, altogether, are larger in size than the original avi file.
> When i use mplex in the next step limiting the size of the result file
> to 700 MB. to fit a single CD, i get an error message telling that the
> files are too large for this.
> 
> I guess i have to transcode the original file in a way that i get a
> smaller result files, but i have not been able to do it.
> 
> I would appreciate some help.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Alf
> 
> 

I don't know if this will work.

Looking at the situation, can you lower the original quality and use 
mencoder to convert.  I am not that familiar with VCD but I have been 
looking at shrinking some different videos down.  If the resolution is 
lowered a few %, maybe the VCD encoding will be able to compress it to 
a size that fits.

I have also found that if you are going to burn close to the limits of 
a CD-R, do it at a very low speed.  I made a couple of cup holders a 
few weeks ago that were at the 700meg size.  At 2X I could burn 
working copies.  At anything higher, they were trash.  I used K3b to 
burn them.

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Robin Laing